Striped ladybird
The striped ladybird is a tiny Australian ladybird. Instead of spots, it wears stripes: its yellow wing cases have black edges, a black line down the middle and a black stripe on each side. Its head is yellow too.
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Fun facts
It is less than half a centimetre long, about as big as a grain of rice.
The shield behind its head is yellow at the front and black at the back, with see-through edges.
Besides Australia and Tasmania, it also lives on New Caledonia, an island in the Pacific Ocean.
Most asked questions about Striped ladybird
?How big is the striped ladybird?
Only about 4 millimetres long, smaller than a grain of rice.
?Is the striped ladybird dangerous?
No. It is a tiny, harmless ladybird.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Micraspis frenata
- Group
- Ladybirds
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Coccinellidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Micraspis frenata (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Greg Tasney Depicted place: Fordsdale QLD 4343, Australia ( 27°42′20″S 152°05′04″E / 27.7056316667°S 152.08439°E / -27.7056316667; 152.08439 ). CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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